Moscow Theological Academy
The Moscow Theological Academy (Russian Московская духовная академия, scientific transliteration Moskovskaya duhovnaja akademija ) is a church college, which is located on the grounds of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius in the northeastern Moscow Oblast.
Importance
The Moscow Theological Academy is the leading educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Cleric study there usually after their ordination, to prepare for higher responsibilities in the Church.
A distance learning is possible, mainly for priests abroad, mostly monks who need to continue their education for the acquisition of a church's ministry.
History
Founded as the Moscow Theological Academy in 1687 at the instigation of the brothers Lichud ( Sophronius Lichud and Joan Niki Lichud ) as Slavic - Greek - Latin school after the Tsar Fyodor III. had signed the decree founding in 1686. The school was the first higher education institution in Moscow.
During the reign of Tsar Peter I the school grew and was transformed into a higher theological school which emerged especially in this time many secular schools, which ensured the formation of the population. 1721, the school was placed under the Holy Synod.
1775 was the official name in "Slavic Greek Latin School " and their educational mission was coordinated with the Seminary of the Holy Trinity monastery.
During the 19th century, the former Greek - Latin school to the first theological school of the Russian Orthodox Church. Among the professors were the eminent historian Vasily Ossipowitsch Klyuchevsky and the Christian philosopher Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky. Since 1892, the Moscow Theological Academy is the most prestigious magazine of Orthodox Theology entitled Bogoslowski vestnik out. For their editors were already Gorski - Platonov and Florensky Pavel Alexandrovich.
After the November coup, the Moscow Theological Academy in 1918 was closed by the Bolsheviks. Some professors, among them the rector, Archbishop Fyodor Posdejewski, and IW Popov and Florensky Pavel Alexandrovich, changed the informal Higher Theological School in Moscow, where, however, only a few students were left.
In September 1943, at the peak of World War II to Russia, met the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin, three leading archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church and agreed with them a new policy of cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church. He promised the recognition of the Higher Theological School and presented a re-opening in sight. As promised, the school was opened on 14 July 1944 at Novodevichy Convent. It was the first officially approved theological education institution in the Soviet Union. The teaching was directed by Grigori Tschukow, Archbishop of Saratov, in the way. The rector was S.W. Sawinski.
In 1946 the Theological Institute in today's Moscow Theological Academy was remodeled. A year later, in 1947, the Academy received the right to the title candidate nauk (Candidate of Sciences, the first postgraduate degree in the former USSR ), Doctor and Professor lend.
In 1949 it became the Moscow Spiritual Academy allowed to return to their original location in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, where the Theological Academy is up to the present time. Most of the bishops and theologians of the Russian Orthodox Church have today made a degree from the Moscow Academy.
Major graduates
- Anthim I. (1816-1888), first Bulgarian Exarch
- Peter of Krutitsy (1862-1937), Hieromartyrer the Russian Orthodox Church
- Filaret II ( Mychajlo Denyssenko, * 1929), Patriarch of Kiev and throughout Ukraine
- Alexander Vladimirovich Men (1935-1990), Russian Orthodox religious philosopher, priest and dissident
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Ivanov, Orthodox theologian at the training facility of Orthodox Theology of the University of Munich